Frosty morning

As usual, its a bit chilly this morning, a few snow flake fell yesterday again and the 4" soil temps are back down to 45 f.

I was able to fix some tile yesterday, but that was a very ugly process in the feet of mud that I call my field.

Have a good weekend.

One creek goes down, the other goes up

It is normal for this creek to get out of its banks, and will have to rise another 3 feet before it backs up into any of my fields.

4" soil temps holding steady in the 47-48 range, 30% chance of snow (getting really old) here tomorrow, and I am still trying to decide where I want to go fishing....after reading fishing reports, even the fish aren't very active with this colder weather.

Rain !?!?!

Received a little under 2 inches last night. Rained for 9 hours straight. Have still not started planting and will be delayed at least another week now. Soil is still cold and saturated to the point you can squeeze liquid out of a handful....not good.

This is a picture of the creek behind my house. It is fed 100% from tile and surface water, so when it swells like this....it means the soil profile is full.

On the plus side......night crawlers were active this morning, and I was able to grab over 50 and store them for fishing.....I wonder when I will find time to do that? hmmmmm oh ya now!



I recorded a video yesterday, but don't really want to upload it based on its depressing how nice it was yesterday compared to today.

2.75 Inches accumulated

Topped out there and then switched to rain before I could get a pic started melting pretty fast.

Thunder Snow!!!

It didn't look too bad this morning, I even hauled a load of corn to the local ethanol plant, but when I got home......all hell broke loose.

Here are a couple pics,





And a video of the actual thunder snow will be uploaded to Ag Reports Network later today. Kyle Wendland (NE Iowa)

The start of another crop year......wont start anytime soon.

This time last year I was 1/4 done with corn, though that was very unusual, I think the fact that this year we are over a week away from planting is beginning to get worrisome. I have never had fond memories of planting corn in May. (2008 was my worst corn yield ever)

Saturday morning I woke up this wonderful (not) sight. Around and inch of snow was accumulated, and though it melted quickly, it did not do the soil temps any favors.


For 4" soil temps in Iowa I use this website.....



or http://extension.agron.iastate.edu/NPKnowledge/soiltemphistory.html if the link doesn't work
Soil temps need to be above 50 degrees and have a good forecast before planting corn. I still have bad memories of the May 10th frost last year.....and do not want to relive that.

This week I will be hauling corn and maybe picking some rock if it dries out again....but that looks doubtful.